{"id":2740,"date":"2010-01-09T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2010-01-09T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:54:58","slug":"world-cup-dining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Dining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an idea for a web site that would have a potential to be great fun, a valuable service, a buzz generator and a money maker.\u00a0 It will work in cosmopolitan cities around the world but I will focus it on Los Angeles and Las Vegas two cities I know best.<\/p>\n<p>There are thirty two teams playing in the first round of the world cup.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/teams\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>List Here<\/strong><\/a> The first round of play starts in June 2010.\u00a0 So there is plenty of time to organize a web site that promotes &#8220;World Class, World Cup Dining&#8221;\u00a0 Sell ads to restaurants that specialize in food from the countries playing in the world cup.\u00a0 Feature only one or two from each country.\u00a0 Have printable discount coupons and a contest that is something like: the people who write reviews of all of the restaurants will get prizes and publicity and invited to a screening of the World Cup Final at one of the finalist country restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Now your saying who will bother to follow this.\u00a0 Actually a lot of people might: foodies, sports fanatics&#8217; soccer lovers and people who can&#8217;t resist a contest.\u00a0 Certainly people who have a link to the competing countries will want to be part of the action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"450px-Flag_of_Cote_d'Ivoire.svg\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/4259871052\/450px-flag_of_cote_divoire-svg.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4002\/4259871052_d4c2653050_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"450px-Flag_of_Cote_d'Ivoire.svg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Cote d&#8217;Ivoire Flag<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your next objection if you&#8217;ve read this far will be: &#8220;but there isn&#8217;t a restaurant from Cote d&#8217;Ivoire in Las Vegas.&#8221; No but there is a restaurant owner who will be willing to learn the national dish of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire and gain the customer stream and publicity from the event.\u00a0 Think about all of the struggling local video poker parlors that need a boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an idea for a web site that would have a potential to be great fun, a valuable service, a buzz generator and a money maker.\u00a0 It will work in cosmopolitan cities around the world but I will focus it on Los Angeles and Las Vegas two cities I know best. There are thirty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-Ic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}